“OK, candidates, the election is over. Time to clean up the unsightly mess on the roadsides. Pick up your ugly campaign signs!”

“There are a few Section 8 houses in my neighborhood. The tenants abuse the system and have trashed the houses numerous times.”

“Attention anyone who is asked to sing The National Anthem: Please note the version played at Olympic medal ceremonies. That’s the tempo it is meant to be sung in.”

“I’ll take whatever governmental help I can get because it seems the people of America don’t want to help.”

“Thanks to the young man who helped me when I fell in Kroger. I later found out I broke my arm and shattered my shoulder. He was one of the first people to help me. Everyone who helped me was so nice.”

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And just where do you think the governmental help comes from? Do you really not know? Have you been brainwashed? The people of America have aways paid for that governmental help you get. We're just tired of seeing our help being wasted by politicians and abused by those who don't really need it.

I am reminded of the Katrina video in which a New Orleans man was given $2,000 by the Red Cross, yet was angry because he felt he deserved $20,000. Or the local video of returning hurricane Floyd evacuees who threw full water bottles at the volunteers who greeted them upon their return. It was those same evacuees, by the way, who were angry that the government evacuated them to the state fair grounds in Perry, GA and didn't put them in hotels for free. We even read in this paper the stories of Section 8 housing destroyed by it's occupants.

Now I don't mean to imply that everyone receiving government help abuses the privilege, but my parents taught me that I would appreciate what I had if I earned it rather than received it as a gift. Perhaps you cannot uderstand that, but I'm sure the people of America you criticize will understand.

I heard that the City of Perry told the City of Savannah that they were no longer welcome to send hurricane evacuees there due to the way the evacuees acted. I believe this was during the Floyd evacuation.

...going to be a few bad apples in the bunch. Those that aren't gratefull for what they DO get and those that abuse the system for their own personal gain; but yet they say 'to Hades with everyone else!' These people are the ones who need to be reported to the proper authorities, or they need to be reminded about where the assistance came from and then they shouldn't be able to receive any more assistance. If only more people had the cajones to actually report the ones abusing the system, maybe the economy would improve somewhat, or at least they'd appreciate the public assistance a little more.

over time becomes public dependence. Perhaps the reason you perceive that "people of America don’t want to help" is that those that know you perceive that you don't want to help yourself or that you make poor choices with that which you are given.